Installing your SharePoint servers on VMware with Virtual Machines (VMs) gives you a lot of flexibility when performing site enhancements, migrations and global site modifications.   It can save you a significant amount of hardware cost and configuration time when installing a new SharePoint Farm or migrating an existing SharePoint Farm to 2010.

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Running your SQL Servers in Virtual Machines (VM) has many benefits compared to running on physical machines.  These virtualization-specific tools allow a database administrator (DBA) to easily create, manage, test, back up and recover their SQL Server environment.  VMware’s  vSphere  Platform allows a DBA to fully leverage their hardware resources....Read the rest of entry >>

Recent research from Gartner’s Burton Group has concluded that “Enterprise production e-mail servers should be deployed virtualized by default (meaning that it should be an exception backed by specific technical considerations when they are deployed on “bare metal”).” While this underscores the benefits of virtualization I mentioned in my previous blog, it would be wise to follow best practices to get the best results....Read the rest of entry >>

Virtualization represents a major paradigm shift and continues to gain market share.  A major concern of Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint Administrators is “will it work?” Since 95% of these application configurations can be virtualized most companies today adopt a “virtualization first” or “virtualize by default” policy. Of course there are those few installations that should not be virtualized....Read the rest of entry >>